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Inter- and Intra-Marriage Premiums Revisited : It's Probably Who You are, Not Who You Marry!

Nekby, Lena - 2010

For immigrants, intermarriage with natives is assumed to have an assimilating role due to the enhancement of local …; intermarriage to natives and intra-marriage with immigrants from home countries or other (non-Swedish) countries. A staggered fixed … effects model is estimated separately for each marriage type to further disentangle a causal effect of intermarriage (intra …

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Does Culture Affect Divorce Decisions? Evidence from European Immigrants in the US

Furtado, Delia - 2011

This paper explores the role of culture in determining divorce decisions by examining country of origin differences in divorce rates of immigrants in the United States. Because childhood-arriving immigrants are all exposed to a common set of US laws and institutions, we interpret relationships...

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Labour Market Status and Migration Dynamics

Bijwaard, Govert E. - 2009

country after a period of no-income. Employment characteristics and the country of origin play an important role in explaining …

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Income Pooling and Household Division of Labor : Evidence from Danish Couples

Amuedo-Dorantes, Catalina - 2011

If income pooling indicates primary earners' willingness to trade part of their income with spouses who earn less and work more in household production, then among specialized couples income pooling will be positively associated with the price of commercial domestic services, substitutes for...

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On Population Structure and Marriage Dynamics

Giolito, Eugenio P. - 2010

I develop an equilibrium, two-sided search model of marriage with endogenous population growth to study the interaction between fertility, the age structure of the population and the age at first marriage of men and women. Within a simple two-period overlapping generation model I show that,...

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The Disappearing Gender Gap : The Impact of Divorce, Wages, and Preferences on Education Choices and Women's Work

Fernández, Raquel - 2011

Women born in 1935 went to college significantly less than their male counterparts and married women's labor force participation (LFP) averaged 40% between the ages of thirty and forty. The cohort born twenty years later behaved very differently. The education gender gap was eliminated and...

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Sociability and the Timing of First Marriage

Heizler-Cohen, Odelia - 2012

This paper investigates, both theoretically and empirically, the effect of sociability on the age of marriage. Theoretically, a more sociable individual has higher chances of finding a suitable partner for marriage early in life, and hence is expected to marry earlier than an otherwise similar...

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Why Wait? A Century of Education, Marriage Timing and Gender Roles

Iyigun, Murat - 2016

We document that, over the 20th century, age at first marriage followed a U-shaped pattern, while the gender education gap tracked an inverted-U path in the United States. To explain this, we propose a multi-period frictionless matching model where educational and marriage decisions are...

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Genes, Legitimacy and Hypergamy : Another Look at the Economics of Marriage

Saint-Paul, Gilles - 2009

In order to credibly "sell" legitimate children to their spouse, women must forego more attractive mating opportunities. This paper derives the implications of this observation for the pattern of matching in marriage markets, the dynamics of human capital accumulation, and the evolution of the...

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The Effects of Divorce Risk on the Labour Supply of Married Couples

Papps, Kerry L. - 2006

This paper presents a model of lifetime utility maximisation in which expectations of future marital transitions play a role in the determination of work hours. Married people with spouses who earn more are predicted to devote additional time to the labour market when they are confronted with a...

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